Peoples' Democratic Party of Turkey

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is a democratic socialist political party in Turkey that was founded on 15 October 2012. The party's views were generally left-wing, as it supported participatory democracy, feminism, minority rights, and egalitarianism, and the party polled the highest among the Kurdish population of southeastern Turkey. The HDP was opposed to the 2016 Turkish coup attempt, but the authoritarian Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan began to arrest HDP members on suspicion of terrorist activity after September 2016. In 2017, the party held 58/550 Grand National Assembly seats, 1/30 metropolitan municipality seats, 9/20,458 municipal councillor seats, and 1/1,251 provincial councillor seats.